beside the question
Example Sentences
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Whether Lebanon is beyond repair is beside the question; I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it just yet.
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020
No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2011
The best in the Blues, sir; but this is beside the question.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
The Ego must sink into a mere receptacle or arena of psychic event; its independent meaning or purport is to be ignored, as beside the question.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
The fact that neither need fear a trial of strength with any other Power or any union of Powers, is beside the question.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
